Zach Seibold

Digital Media: Artifacts explores photogrammetry, along with related technologies for image processing and geometry manipulation, as a means of addressing broader questions related to digital media in architecture. The act of scanning separates an artifact from its physical context and materiality, and invites multiple interpretations and modes of engagement. Departing from the notion of the scan as merely a digital copy or representational device, we consider each component of the process as a site for design intervention, with its own unique materiality, structure and organization. Liberated from physical context, how might a scanned artifact perform or operate in new ways? The final project includes two primary areas of focus - digital manipulation of the formal and material reading of scanned artifact(s); and the design of a pavilion-scale installation using the manipulated scans.Student work produced as part of a course at the Harvard GSD developed + taught by Zach Seibold + Hyojin Kwon

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